Thunderclap Campaign

On March 10th, 2018, we celebrated National Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day by using Thunderclap to help our message be heard by saying it together with thousands of other minority women. With a simple pledge of support, it allowed our singular message encouraging women to get tested and #popthequestion to be mass-shared on National Women & Girl’s HIV Awareness Day, flash mob-style, and rise to the top of the social networks

Social Video Campaign

We’ve also partnered with the National Library of Medicine, Social Media Influencer @MissJayDMV, and beauty queens from Miss Black US Ambassador to deliver weekly educational and engaging content to spread the word about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Team work makes the dream work and nothing says #blackgirlmagic like a group of powerful women with their allies standing together to fight against one common cause.

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To The Sistas That Want To #POPTHEQUESTION But Don’t Know How

1.

Make It A Shared Experience

Put yourself out there. Word it in a way that’s shows you’re also willing to take the brave walk with them. For example try saying, “I think it would be smart if we both got tested for the sake of our health.” You stand a better chance of getting them to follow through when you offer for the two of you to do it together.

2.

Be Tested Already

Come home equipped with your STD/HIV test results already completed. Sharing the results not only shows through action that you care about their health, but also implies that they should care about yours too and do the same.

3.

Present Them With Knowledge

When the media offers up estimates pertaining to the number of individuals each year that become newly infected with HIV, people perk an ear up to listen. The Center for Disease Control states, “while blacks represent approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account for almost half of people living with HIV in the U.S (46%). If you present someone with this information or show them a place where they can find it, it might aid in your mission to relay the importance of knowing whether you are or aren’t HIV Positive.

4.

Stand Your Ground

Asking someone to know more about their health isn’t a far-fetched request by any means. It’s one of the smartest moves two people can make towards securing a healthy future for one another Don’t waste your time with someone who doesn’t care about how much time either of you has to live past today. Get tested, or move on.

How To #POPTHEQUESTION Like A Beauty Queen

Hear from Miss Black US Ambassador Beauty Queens how they have personally taken control of their sexual health

Leighanna Kingvalsky

Miss Black US Ambassador 2017

Jaelah Wright-Keely

MBUSAM Mississippi

Airs March 19

Cornelia Leach

MBUSAM Illinois

Airs March 26

Dominique Ashley

MBUSAM North Carolina

Airs April 2nd

Raven Robinson

MBUSAM Minnesota

Airs April 9th

Candace N. Johnson

MBUSAM District of Columbia

Airs April 16th

Dominique Parks

MBUSAM California

Airs April 23rd

Chelsea Ward

MBUSAM Great Lakes

Airs April 30th

Kashunti Farmer

MBUSAM Alabama

Airs May 7th

Kayla Walter

MBUSAM Maryland

Airs May 14th

Arielle Hudson

MBUSAM Tennessee

Airs April 30th

The Ugly Truth About HIV Among African-Americans

Black communities disproportionately bear the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America. Almost half of all new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2016 occurred within the black community alone, and in the year prior, black Americans accounted for 52 percent of HIV/AIDS-related deaths in our country. These numbers are alarming on their own but carry additional weight when considering black Americans make up only about 12 percent of the total U.S. population. And when looking at African-American women specifically, the HIV prevalence rate for black women is 18 times greater than the rate for White and Hispanic women.